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Material relating to the Dodgy Jammers' musical performance work with disabled young people at the Stackpole Centre, Pembrokeshire, 25-26 November 1999.

Material relating to entries contributed by Jen Wilson to the The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (2008), including agreements for the writing and contribution of entries; notes for contributors; texts of Jen Wilson's entries; notes towards the writing of entries; correspondence addressed to Jen Wilson from editors Nigel Jenkins and Menna Baines; and printed invitation to launch of publication. The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales was edited by writer and editor Menna Baines, poet and writer Nigel Jenkins and historian and author John Davies and was published in January 2008. Jen Wilson's contributions to the publication centred around jazz music and jazz musicians.

Material relating to the publication of Those Saturday Nights: The Story of Swansea's Tower Ballroom (2013), a bilingual volume of history and reminiscences about Swansea's famous venue edited by Jen Wilson. The project was funded by the Arts Council of Wales.

Material relating to Jazz Heritage Wales's Tower Ballroom Project, which involved the collection of local people's reminiscences, anecdotes, photographs, etc about the Tower Ballroom, Swansea, these to be used in exhibitions at both Jazz Heritage Wales and the Phoenix Centre, Swansea. Together with material relating to performances by the Women in Jazz Allstars Swing Band at a Vintage Dance held 23 March 2012 at Townhill Community Centre, Swansea as part of the Tower Ballroom Project.

Material, including conference schedules and correspondence, relating to the Wales 2000: A Land of Opportunity tutors' conference held at Gregynog Hall, near Newtown, 8-10 June 1992, which Jen Wilson presumably attended (but did not apparently give a talk) and at which she also provided musical entertainment.

Material relating to a tutors' conference titled Roots and Fundamentals: Science, Literature and Society Today held at Gregynog Hall, near Newtown, 5-6 July 1993, comprising conference schedule and correspondence. There is no definite evidence to indicate whether or not Jen Wilson attended this conference.

Undated material relating to funding applications made by the Women's Jazz Archive/Women in Jazz/Jazz Heritage Wales.

Material relating to Unison Cymru/Wales Women's Committee's Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Abolition of Slavery 1807-2007 - Women in Slavery: Past or Present? conference, held 21 November 2008, at which Jen Wilson presented a talk titled A Nobler Strife: Welsh Women Abolitionists in America, comprising conference schedule and registration form, with covering letter, and lobbying Unison postcard calling for the recognition of National Slavery Memorial Day.

Notice of paper titled Gender Issues and Women's Music, to be presented by Jen Wilson at a research seminar held at University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education, 28 January [?1993]; together with text relating to women's rôle in music and reference to a talk by Dr Roberta Lamb titled Music, Gender and Education, to be given at Bristol University, 27 March 1993.

Letter and invoice relating to presentation given by Jen Wilson to University College of Wales, Swansea's Department of Adult Continuing Education's summer school 'From Castle to Coalmine', 1988.

Letter of confirmation from Jen Wilson relating to a proposed Roots Trio concert to be held at the University of Glamorgan in June 2003.

Material relating to the 'Overseas Blues': European Perspectives on African American Music conference held at the University of Gloucestershire, 23-26 July 2004, at which Jen Wilson presented a talk titled Black Soul, Welsh Hwyl: Black Music in Wales, including abstract and fair copy of Jen Wilson's talk, together with rough notes; call for papers; conference schedules; list of delegates; conference flyers; material relating to blues performance in the Netherlands; correspondence; copy of talk given by Professor Neil Wynn, Professor of 20th century American history at the University of Gloucestershire; biographical note relating to Professor Neil Wynn; and notice of international conference on jazz, blues and African American culture to be held at Nottingham University.

Correspondence, enclosing expenses sheet and map, relating to a talk given by Jen Wilson to the University of the Third Age (U3A) at Neath Constitutional Club, 18 May 2006.

Script relating to Jen Wilson's talk on Jazz in Wales, presented to the University of the Third Age (U3A) at Sketty Park, Swansea, 19 November 2015.

Letter thanking Jen Wilson for her presentation to the University of the Third Age (U3A) titled Women in Jazz: How Black Music came to Wales.

Script of illustrated lecture titled Wales and Negro Minstrelsy, presented by Jen Wilson for the University of the Third Age (U3A) at Marletts Hall, Brighton, 5 December 2009.

Correspondence relating to the Val Feld Memorial Dinner held at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, 13 October 2006, at which Women in Jazz performed.

Material relating to the Val Feld Memorial Lecture and Dinner held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 14 October 2005, at which Women in Jazz performed.

Material relating to the Val Feld Memorial Lecture and Dinner, held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 25 October 2002, at which Women in Jazz performed; together with obituary notices and tributes to Val Feld and the order of her memorial service.

Material relating to the Val Feld Memorial Lecture and Dinner held at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, 24 October 2003, at which Women in Jazz performed. The material includes the full text of the lecture, delivered by Anna Coote.